[edit] ibiblio sites strongly related to providing services and outreach to North Carolina

ibiblio boasts a 15-year history of serving North Carolina-centric web sites, audio and video. ibiblio provides our public schools in particular with freely available resources that are educational, cultural, and just plain fun, from several sites concerning North Carolina Ghost Stories to pages on Moonshine and the Spivey's Corner Hollerin' Contest.

The Agricultural Resources Center advocates for alternatives to toxic pesticides in North Carolina by empowering people to make sound decisions about their health and environment.

Bawdy Ballads and Farfetched Folklore collects ballads and folk tales from the North Carolina mountains. The site includes video from the NC State Fair talent competition and offers traditional "Jack Tales."

Broken Arrow: the Bomb of Goldsboro explores environmental concerns surrounding two hydrogen bombs that fell without detonating near Faro, NC - one of them still sunk in a boggy farm field.

The Common Sense Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy think tank based in Raleigh, North Carolina. We advocate progressive public-policy solutions and try to give voice to those who have traditionally been locked out of the debate in North Carolina, particularly the poor, minorities, women, and gays and lesbians.

Excavating Occaneechi Town presents an electronic monograph (published by UNC Press) that describes the history and archaeology of Occaneechi Town, an Indian village near present-day Hillsborough, North Carolina, that was visited by explorer John Lawson in 1702.

Fully Awake: The Black Mountain College Experience is a documentary film project that explores Black Mountain College's history and cultural impact. "Tucked in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933-1957) has emerged as one of the most influencial experiments in education." The film will be made to be used in educational outreach programs in high schools throughout North Carolina and the South.

Hayti, the African-American section of Durham, North Carolina, flourished from the 1880s to the 1940s. Like Memphis' Beale Street and the area around Atlanta's Sweet Auburn, Hayti was an island of African-American culture and business in a hostile society. This site provides glimpses of that vanished community.

The Heirs' Project aims to strengthen and broaden the base of North Carolina social justice organizers.

The Hollerin Contest, an annual competition held in Spivey's Corner, NC, celebrates North Carolina Folklife.

iNSIDEoUT serves all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied youth in North Carolina.

Jewish Sparks is an educational site which contains lectures and talks from Jewish Scholars and leaders. Part of its collection includes material from the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.

Like A Family: Making of A Southern Cotton Mill World makes available some of the stories told in Like a Family, the oral histories of the people who made up the world of a southern cotton mill town and their historical contexts including strikes, unions, and life in a mill village in North Carolina.

More Than Math uses the art of Josef Albers from Black Mountain College to teach 3rd-5th grade math principles from the state math standards.

The North Carolina Artist-Blacksmith's Association is the North Carolina Chapter and affiliate of ABANA, the Artist-Blacksmith's Association of North America, Inc. The non-profit, volunteer-driven organization is dedicated to promoting and sharing the art of blacksmithing.

The Plant Information Center offers a searchable database with digitized herbarium specimens (from North Carolina and the Southeast), a glossary of botanical terms, both print and electronic bibliographic resources that support botanical identification, and a list of web links to major virtual herbaria worldwide.

Etree.org offers nearly 7,800 live music shows that were recorded in North Carolina, freely and legally available for download over BitTorrent.

The Confluence Project has registered visits to all 13 of the Degree Confluence points in NC and is used in many 4th and 5th grade classrooms.

Project Gutenberg is a rich free-text resource including over 20,000 books, the following four concerning North Carolina:

Etext# 24539 by Howe, W. W. [Editor] entitled: Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro (North Carolina) expedition, December, 1862
Etext# 12953 by Hunter, C. L. entitled: Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical
Etext# 6080 by Moore, John W. (John Wheeler), 1833-1906 entitled: School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time
Etext# 22976 entitled: Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
Etext# 3126 entitled: On Horseback, by Charles Dudley Warner is about North Carolina in part.

Carolina HEELs brings children from diverse backgrounds to the UNC campus and allos them the opportunity to participate in leadership activities.

Central Carolina Skywarn, "The Eyes and Ears of the National Weather Service," is an organization of severe weather spotters trained by the National Weather Service. Many Skywarn Spotters are Amateur radio operators who make use of portable and mobile radio to report severe weather conditions through their local Skywarn net to the National Weather Service.

The Durham Bike Coop is a collective bicycle workspace that seeks to act as a hub for positive community development and interaction through bicycle skills-sharing. The DBC is member-driven, member-funded, and most importantly, fun!

Komen NC Triangle Race for the Cure is dedicated to eradicating breast cancer through research, education, screening and treatment. This site's main focus is the annual Race for the Cure, but includes other information on fundraising events and volunteer opportunities in the Triangle area.

Leesville Aerospace serves the aerospace classes and club at Leesville High School in Raleigh, NC.

The North Carolina Library Association is an affiliate of the American Library Association and the Southeastern Library Association, and the only statewide organization concerned with the total library community in North Carolina.

The North Carolina Society is dedicated to the promotion of increased knowledge and appreciation of North Carolina's heritage. Site contains information on society membership, publications, and awards.

The Shared Visions Foundation is dedicated to building the organizational capacity of and promoting cooperation among nonprofit agencies that directly benefit communities in Durham and Orange Counties.

Thai at UNC collects information about Thai students and scholars in the UNC community, and includes useful resources for prospective Thai students and scholars, and Americans who are interested in Thailand.

The North Carolina Society for Ethical Culture is one of 22 societies in the United States which form the American Ethical Union. Their website includes information about the tenets of the ethical socities, news and local events, information on speakers, maps and directions, and links to other resources.

The Triad Equality Alliance's mission is to eliminate prejudice and to secure social justice and civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people in the NC Triad area by educating and enlightening the general public about LGBT members of the community and the special issues affecting them.

The Triangle Free Press reports both local and global news that is ignored or under-reported by mainstream and corporate media.

One of ibiblio's strongest contributions to the state has been that of providing stable, continuous online streaming of North Carolina-based non-profit radio stations: WCPE, WUNC, WXYC, WXDU, WDAV, and WCOM, all free of charge. We typically see up to 50,000 unique listeners on weekdays as we serve North Carolina's radio stations to areas of the state not covered by the individual stations' towers.

In 1994 ibiblio (then SunSITE) pioneered online radio streaming by offering UNC's student station, WXYC, on the nascent 'Net. Ten years later, ibiblio began serving WCPE as one of the first online radio streams to use the IPV6 protocol.

School of Public Health - Jones on Gillings Innovation Acceleration Centers Board

INTRAHealth - Open Source for Public Health

Open Library and Open Content Alliance - Paul Jones, Simon Spero and Donald Sizemore are members of the Open Content Alliance and the Open Library project, which aim to digitize and make available for download every book which has lapsed into the public domain. Simon, an ibiblio graduate student worker, has been a key programmer supporting OpenLibrary's Scan-on-Demand initiative.

NSF DataNet proposal - lead by archive.org

Virtual Computing Initiative in collaboration with NCSU and MCNC. ibiblio is making use of blade computing equipment donated to the VCL project to test and evaluate VCL's use in generating virtual machines housed centrally in the MCNC data center, with a final aim of making these virtual resources available to the public school system in hopes of deploying standard desktop configurations onto cheap hardware from a central location.

The William Blake archive is now housed at UNC, and ibiblio is providing more flexible e-mail services for Blake than would have been available through the University.